Arthur Campbell Martin was born in Radley, Berkshire, England on 20 August 1875. He was articled to Edward John May (1853-1941) from 1894 to 1897 and remained for a period as his assistant. He then worked as an assistant to Henry Cornwallis Rogers, Charles Belfield Bone (1862-1941) and Frank Alleyn Coles of Rogers, Bone & Coles in 1897-98; and to John Burland Chubb (1861-1955) in 1898. He also attended the Royal Academy Schools in London from January 1897 to January 1900. He commenced independent practice as an architect in London in 1898. He made his name designing small country houses and church buildings. He was consulting architect to the Duchy of Cornwall and won the £500 prize in "Daily Mall " Cottage Competition in 1919
Martin was elected a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1911 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1912.
Martin's address was given as 41 Old Queen Street, Westminster, London in 1898; 10 Campbell House Road, Kensington, London in 1911; 11 Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London in 1911 and 1914; 49 Wynnstay Gardens, Kensington, London in 1912; 13 Sheffield Terrace, London in 1914; 9, New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London in 1923 and 1939; and 19 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, London in 1950. He died in Surrey on 2 July 1963.
A biographical file available on request from the Enquiry Desk, Royal Institute of British Architects Library, London
King's Coll. (London) Hostel, in Vincent Square; Guisboro' Hall. Yorks; St. Amand's, Adderbury, near Banbury; Outer Down, Chagford; alterations to S. Wraxall Manor, Wilts; vicarages at Buckland St. Mary, Wath-on-Deane, Alfrick, &c; Hitchambury, near Taplow; Gisborough Hall, Yorks, for Lord Gisborough, 1903; King's College Hostel, Vincent Square, 1913-14; Sandhurst Royal Military College Memorial Chapel, 1918-22; Barclays Banks at Islington and elsewhere, 1922-25. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1914, 1923, 1926]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
Stocker, Ann. ‘Arthur Campbell Martin CVO FRIBA (1875-1963): three churches’. Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings. Transactions vol. 21, 1996, pp. 55-59.
‘Obituary’ RIBA Journal October 1963 p. 421
‘Obituary’ The Builder vol. 205,12 July 1963 p. 53